Part 1
Mostly the same character roster but Night Warriors added two more characters. It also made both boss characters playable right off the bat. This is interesting because originally in Darkstalkers you can't play as them. Although more recently in Capcom Fighting Collection, there's an option making them both playable.
Not to mention, originally through hacking beating the game as either boss character. Virtually the same endings in Night Warriors just without the text. This was later changed to a new Thank You for Playing screen with a close up of Morrigan in that compilation. Speaking of that, neither shares the same screen pictures to help telling them a part easier.
The stages are virtually identical as well as most endings. Yes the boss characters are the same in both games. A few animations like a particular one with Demitri in the intro can be seen in both games. The title screen as well as character selection screen looks very different. There's also more overall animation including moves added in Night Warriors.
How the original Darkstalkers went about specials should be a crime!!! Originally as soon as your special gets filled, the meter notably does down. Which forces to player to play more aggressive during matches. Thank god they fixed it Night Warriors, it no longer goes down after filling it up plus you can stock a few specials too.
Part 2
This will be very confusing for those who don't know these versions of Darkstalkers 3. A handful of compilations has all three versions including Capcom Fighting Collection. All three games has very different intros as well as title screen. Neither Vampire Hunter 2 & Vampire Savior 2 got translated into English to this day.
Which means they're only in Japanese, unusual among their Arcade fighting games at the time. Darkstalkers 3 most characters has endings. Most of them are removed in the updated versions only leaving in the final boss' ending. I'm not an expert on moves, which notably got affected in some way among all three versions.
Not to mention, both updated versions removed three to four characters to include three classic characters into the roster. Even hidden character wise gets a little interesting. Both Oboro Bishamon & Shadow are present in all versions of Darkstalkers 3. Keep in mind, I'm using Capcom Fighting Collection as reference here.
Dark Talbain is only playable in the original version of Darkstalkers 3. Both updated versions adds Marionette, Alternate Donovan and Alternate Huitzil into the roster. Personally I don't know what makes those versions different from the usual ones I'm curious to find out. Vampire Hunter 2 removed Jedah, Baby Bonnie Hood, Q-Bee and Lilith from the roster.
Vampire Savior 2 removed Jon Talbain, Sasquatch and Rikou respectively. What's more interesting is Vampire Savior 2 reuses Darkstalkers 3's soundtrack. In Vampire Hunter 2's case, it actually reuses Night Warriors' soundtrack instead. Essentially making it Night Warriors recreated through Darkstalkers 3 experience.
Both updated versions uses alternate stage colors as well as your CPU opponents. Originally some characters fights someone else after Jedah in Arcade Mode. For some characters, Jedah is the final boss. Both updated versions has a different boss set up that most characters follows suit. In Vampire Hunter 2, the sub boss being Huitzil with Pyron being the final boss.
In Vampire Savior 2, Pyron ends up being the sub boss with Jedah being the final boss. I should point out Capcom already removed secret endings out of the updated versions from Capcom Fighting Collection. Another notable difference is where the character pictures are, in Vampire Hunter 2 it's colored differently.
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